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BALLABAJOOMBA POETRY SLAM & OPEN MIC at
the TANGO
TEA ROOM , 505 S. Water Street (behind
Coliseum). Fridays, sign up 7:30 p.m., an open mic
8 p.m. (cover pieces, music, props, etc encouraged
); slam 8:30-10:45. The winners gets $10 in Tango
Tea Room food, $10 in cash and TWO CUPS OF COFFEE;
suggested donation $3. Directions
and quick facts about Ballabajoomba
Slam.
1. Poets perform poems of their own
construction. POEMS OF ANY KIND OR STYLE ARE
WELCOME including formal verse, free verse,
monologues, mano-a-mano sonnets, parables, odes,
ballads, schizophrenic rambling, antichrist
rants and old-school rap, new-school foolin',
hip-hop meditation, romantic wordgasms, dirty
limericks, sparse and lean haiku, 17 syllables
pseudo haiku and other $%*!, fables, twisted
tales, iambic pentameter, napkin-scribbled words
of wisdom, improvised words of anger, beat-box
scratch-verse, phonetic fisticuffs,
abstract-experimental lyricism, and
drunken-master mind-over-matter magic to mention
just a few. 100% free speech.
2. No props, costumes, musical
accompaniment, or animal acts are allowed. Three
minute time limit. (Details here.)
3. A group of five judges selected from
the audience scores each poem on a scale of 0.0
- 10.0, considering both content and
performance. High and low scores are dropped,
middle three are added together (so the perfect
score is 30.0).
4. High scores advance to 2nd and 3rd
round.
Main prize - hmm?
Above all else, as a famous slammaster Allan
Wolf once said, "The Point is NOT the Points, the
Point is Poetry."
For more information, e-mail: sencerz@falcon.tamucc.edu
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Corpus Christi's ONLY nationally certified
series!
CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: We
thank the Austin Slam group and the San Antonio ¡Puro
Slam!, ESPECIALLY Ben Ortiz from SA for allowing us to use
their rules & other stuff as a starting point for
ours... Thanks Austin Slam, ¡Puro Slam!, and Ben
Ortiz-- YOU GUYS
ROCK!!
GOALS OF THE ¡BALLABAJOOMBA
POETRY!
- to enliven and diversify Corpus Christi
poetry
- to draw out and nurture new literary talent
through fun regular events devoted to performance
poetry;
- to expand the audience for poetry and make it as
popular as any spectator sport or rock 'n' roll
show;
- to establish a sustained "regulation" slam venue
that will qualify to send a team of four Corpus Christi
poets yearly to the National Poetry Slam (the next
National Poetry Slam is in Austin, Texas, in August,
2006).
POETS: Here is your chance to grab
an audience by the throat and apply a poetic pile driver!
The winner of every weekly match gets bragging rights and
(sometimes) a prize. Whether you're a local lit
superstar or an unknown scribe, everyone has a chance to
win. COME ONE! COME ALL! BRING OUR STUFF WITH YOU! AND ROCK
THE HOUSE!!! Please check out the To
the poets and the "Rules".
AUDIENCE: You have a chance to talk some smack
back to all the poets, and to shower victorious wordsmiths
with verbal gravy. At ¡BALLABAJOOMBA SLAM! the audience
is a part of the show. COME FOR THE CULTURE - STAY FOR THE
WORD MADE FLESH!
JUDGES:
Every slam, we choose 5 judges from the
audience to play the Judge Judy of poetry. They will assign
each poem a score of 0.0-10.0. [0.0 goes to the worst
possible poem imaginable performed by someone who should not
quit his/her day job, and 10.0 goes to a poem performed
perfectly that causes simultaneous orgasm throughout the
house.] NOW AGAIN: ZERO MEANS "BOOTY" / TEN MEANS "DA
BOMB." Judges use only one decimal point. The scorekeeper
will drop the high and low scores for the round and tally
the other three judges' scores for round's cumulative score.
THE
JUDGE'S INSTRUCTIONS
RULES OF THE SLAM:
- Sign up for the ¡BALLABAJOOMBA SLAM! begins
at 7:30 p.m. every slam night. The list is closed as soon
as 12 or more poets sign for a competition .
- The Sign up list is randomized to determine the
First Round order, our cuts cary but we try to
allow as many poets as possible to read in teh 2nd and
3rd rounds.
- Every round, each poet can read one poem of their
own, original creation, in any style and on any subject.
No props, costumes, or musical accompaniment. Poets
cannot read the same poem twice on a given night! Poets
are allotted 3 minutes per poem, plus a 10-second grace
period to finish. Timing starts as soon as the poet makes
a connection in any way shape or form with the audience.
Best to hit the ground running. If the poet goes over
3:10 minutes, there is a penalty depending on how long
the poet went over time:
- 3:10.01 - 3:20 = -0.5
- 3:20.01 - 3:30 = -1.0
- 3:30.01 - 3:40 = -1.5
- 3:40.01 - 3:50 = -2.0
- and so on, with -0.5 for every 10 seconds over
3:10.
PROP/COSTUME/MUSIC PENALTIES:
1) costume = -2 points
2) props = -2 points
3) music accompaniment = -2 points
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